Soares evaluated the probability of humanity's extinction within 10 years as 50% due to the potential effects of artificial intelligence.
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The security and speed of development of artificial intelligence technologies is a topic of global debate among technology companies and political leaders.
Soares evaluated artificial intelligence in the podcast broadcast hosted by Nicholas Thompson, Chief Executive of The Atlantic magazine.
Stating that he thinks there is a 50 percent chance that humans will not exist in 10 years due to the effects of artificial intelligence, Soares said, "I am not saving for retirement." he said.
Soares stated that he has retirement savings from the time he worked at Google, but he has not added anything to it for about 10 years.
Discussions about slowing down artificial intelligence
Anthropic's Chief Executive, Dario Amodei, stated in an article published on September 12 that the development process should be carried out in a balanced, controlled and collaborative manner in order for the safe progress of artificial intelligence technology, whose development is accelerating day by day.
Following this statement, calls to "reduce the speed of development of artificial intelligence models" caused controversy, while executives of some technology companies and political figures stated that they were worried that the slowdown would lead to monopolization in the sector and provide an advantage to China.
In the USA, the Donald Trump administration is adopting an approach that encourages innovation rather than new regulations that will slow down the development of artificial intelligence.
Trump claimed that "a sick conspiracy is being carried out" to get artificial intelligence technology out of control, and also argued that slowing down the work in this field would give China an advantage.

Artificial intelligence expert Soares sees the probability of humanity's extinction within 10 years as 50 percent due to the risks posed by technology. Stating that he does not save for retirement due to this concern, Soares draws attention to the discussions on the speed of artificial intelligence development.

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